"There is something [about Instagram] that is deeper than photography, deeper than art. Before the written word, before the printing press, before books, we always communicated in a visual manner. I joke that emojis are just futuristic versions of hieroglyphics. "Instagram is the next-generation communication platform. So of course you can communicate wonderful things like a beautiful sunset, like a great latte, but you can also communicate very serious things such as the destruction of Aleppo." "If you walk through the National Gallery halls, what do you see? Portrait after portrait. Self-portraits have been around forever. It just so happens now that everybody's an artist and everybody has the ability to capture a self-portrait at any moment."

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